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Housing Strategies Plan

This study examines the trends in the county's housing costs, its economy and the relationship between these factors and household income-wage growth as it relates to affordability. This study found that despite signs of a turnaround in the county's economic fortunes, the ability to afford housing in nearly all of the county's communities has not kept pace with its rising costs. In addition, the study found that the gap between income and soaring housing prices has gotten dramatically worse in the last seven to eight years. As a result, many county residents are finding it harder and harder to obtain decent housing without paying an uncomfortably high and increasingly larger percentage of their earnings-income. This is true whether the housing choice involves homeownership or rental.

Executive News

Kingston, NY - Ulster County Executive Mike Hein announces that police agencies across Ulster County will participate in a statewide special enforcement effort to crackdown on impaired driving during the Thanksgiving holiday, November 21 through November 25, 2018.